That's Jokes
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The US used to be a cheap place for us to visit and to buy from, it is seriously expensive now. Over the last few years, we have had an influx of US tourists because the Pound is so weak against the dollar. 1 to 1 does not exist unless it is a pegged currency (IUS to Bahamas for instance). If all currencies traded at 1:1, then what the point is there in currencies? It may just as well be a world unit.
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That must obviously be Chuck Norris's grandson:-D
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@Mizmazzle A good read on the USD and how it is intertwined with other currencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index
For the last few years a number of countries (BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have been trying to create a competing index for currency, weakening the importance of the USD in global markets and transactions. It’s a good rabbit hole to go down if you have the time and/or interest.
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@goosehd @Giles @endo
I understand that historically speaking, the pound is not as strong to the dollar as it was 20 years ago and that from the historical perspective of a British person that makes traveling to the US a very expensive endeavor. However, today, for a US citizen traveling to the UK, one can expect the cost of a vacation to the UK to cost more than what traveling domestically would be.For example, the average price of a mid tier meal for 2 people in the UK is £65.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=United+KingdomThe average cost of a mid tier meal for 2 people in the states is $75.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=United+StatesIf I take my hard earned teacher USD on a vacation to the wildly beautiful and wonderfully memorable mother country, I can expect to pay on average of $11.68 more per meal on holiday. ($1 USD : £.075)
Now you compound that over the 3 meals a day times 3 weeks worth of travel time and you get a rather expensive trip, that while historically would have cost so much more in 2005 for us bloody Yanks…still, today, is a more expensive vacation than say, going to Baltimore for a certain party in 2026.
*now if you layer in the fact that tipping on meals in the UK is by and large, not a thing, then my whole analysis unravels by 20% like a cheap sweater…but that’s a Random Love post for another time.
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I’d also like to clarify, my earlier joke about the conversion rate of dollar to pound was more in jest about our exceedingly outlandish vacation and no holding back spoiling of ourselves with the added “extra” of the conversation rate, and not a historical analysis of the slide of the pound in relation to the dollar. Phew. That was a long sentence.
I’d gladly do it again and probably will so next summer!!
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@Jett129 a Patrice binge is a great binge. Loved his appearances back in the day on the Opie and Anthony show and the below CNN spot always makes me smile
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@flannel-slut I've never seen that. Thank you so much. Just perfect!
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